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:00 AM - 4:00 PM CLINIC REGISTRATION

Scott Peters, Half M ile Tim ing (Vendor Ar ea — All D ay) ― Hy-Tek Trainings for District/Region/Invitational — Host Schools and Meet Managers ‖

:00 AM - 8:45 AM Clyde Hart, Baylor University, Director of Track & Field ― Relays — 4 x100 and 4 x 400 ‖ Ken Taylor, Pole Vault Central/Athletic Scholarship Central/Former — UNF Asst. Coach

― High Jump: Ten Steps to Creating Top Performing High Jumpers "Teddy Mitchell, Hibu Consulting, ( Former New Mexico State, Asst. Coach/Florida Track & Field Hall of Fame) ― Mental Preparedness for Racing ‖

:00 AM - 9:50 AM Jarius Cooper, Arkansas State University, Asst. Coach (Coached NCAA Champion — Sharika Nelvis ) ― 100m/110m Hurdle Training ‖ Andy Vince, Throws Coach Florida (Former British Director of Throws/Scottish National Coach/Murray State Coach) ― Practical Applications to Strength Training for the Throwing Events ‖ Desmond Dunham, Woodrow Wilson HS (Virginia) — Head Coach (Former Eleanor Roosevelt HS & U. of Maryland Coach)

― The Transition from High School XC Season to Distance Training on the Track ‖

0:00 AM - 10:50 AM Clyde Hart, Baylor University, Director of Track & Field― Baylor — 400m Training ‖ Andy Vince, Throws Coach Florida (Former British Director of Throws/Scottish National Coach/Murray State Coach)

― Introduction to Coaching the Basics of the Shot Put and Discus ‖ Ken Taylor, Pole Vault Central/Athletic Scholarship Central/Former — UNF Asst. Coach

― Starting a Pole Vault Powerhouse from Scratch! ‖

1:00 AM - 11:40 AM Craig Damon, FH SAA and Scott Peters, Half -M ile Timi ng & Data― FHSAA UPDATE: New NFHS Rules for Track & Field — Q & A Session and One-Weekend State Meet Update ‖

1:40PM - 1:00 PM Lunch Break

:00 PM - 2:10 PM Fl orida Track & Fi eld — H all of F ame Inductees: Walter Dix, Lewis James, Freddie Johnson, Teddy Mitchell, Paul Nowicki, and Sammie SmithRonald L. Book Distinguished Service Award: Mal HarpellJimmy Carnes Lifetime Achievement Award: Ken Brauman

:15 PM - 3:05 PM Jarius Cooper, Arkansas State University, Asst. Coach (Coached NCAA Champion — Sharika Nelvis ) ― 100m — 200m Training ‖ Ken Taylor, Pole Vault Central/Athletic Scholarship Central/Former — UNF Asst. Coach

― Advanced: Breakthrough Techniques To Creating Champions in the Pole Vault ‖ Brian Bombei, East Lake HS, Asst. Coach (Former UF Hurdler)― Innovative Technologies for Track and Field Training: The Best Apps, Wearables, and Beyond? ‖ Craig Damon, FH SAA, (Ponce DeLeon Room … bottom of the escalator) *FHSAA Officials ’ Exam (offered for high school coaches and officials)

:15 PM - 4:05 PM Jarius Cooper, Arkansas State University, Asst. Coach (Coached NCAA Champion — Sharika Nelvis ) ― Intermediate Hurdle Training ‖ Ken Brauman, Sanford-Seminole HS, Head Coach (NTC — Mgr./2012 — Olympic Mgr./ 2011/2013 — World Champs Mgr.)

― Triple Jump – Technique and Teaching"Desmond Dunham, Woodrow Wilson HS (Virginia) — Head Coach (Former Eleanor Roosevelt HS & U. of Maryland Coach)― 800m Training and the 4 x 800 Relay ‖

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----------------15 PM @ Seabreeze HS Track Andy Vince, Throws Coach Florida (Former British Director of Throws/Scottish National Coach/Murray State Coach)

(ON TRACK) - Learn-By-Doing: Practical Applications and Drills for the Shot Put

:30 PM - 6:00PM Clyde Hart, Baylor University, Director of Track & Field



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(ON TRACK) - Learn-By-Doing: Drills /Hand-offs/Starting /Warm-up & cool-down ‖ Andy Vince, Throws Coach Florida (Former British Director of Throws/Scottish National Coach/Murray State Coach) ―(ON TRACK) - Learn-By-Doing: Practical Applications and Drills for the Discus Ken Brauman and Charlie Harris " (ON TRACK) - Learn-By-Doing Welcome to Jumps Practice ‖ Jarius Cooper, Arkansas State University, Asst. Coach (Coached NCAA Champion — Sharika Nelvis ) ―(ON TRACK) - Learn-By-Doing: Welcome to Hurdle Practice ‖

:15 PM - 8:30 PM Dinner Break

:00 PM - Tr ack & F ield Coaches ’ Social presented by M -F Athletic

ATURDAY – Jan. 10 th (Double Sessions)

:00 AM - 9:45 AM Desmond Dunham, Woodrow Wilson HS (Virginia) — Head Coach (Former Eleanor Roosevelt HS & U. of Maryland Coach)― High School Success — 101: 400m and 4x400 Training ‖

Mark Strawderman, M-F Athletic― Pole Vault — Getting to Elite ‖

0:00 AM - 10:45 AM Jarius Cooper, Arkansas State University, Asst. Coach (Coached NCAA Champion — Sharika Nelvis ) ― Q & A - Hurdle Training ‖ Dave Halliday, Flagler Palm Coast HS, Head Coach ― Team Dynamics in High School Track & Field"

1:00 AM - 11:50 PM Clyde Hart, Baylor University, Director of Track & Field ― Q & A – Everything You Ever Wanted to Ask ‖

2:00 PM - 12:30 PM David Halliday, FACA State Track & Field Chairman ― FACA Recommendations Approval and General Wrap-Up Discussion and

Announcement of NEW FACA Track & Field Chairman ‖

Speaker Biographies



Clyde Hart, Baylor University, Director of Track & Field fter 42 years as Baylor's head track and field coach, Clyde Hart retired his position June 14, 2005, to become director of track and field. Hart's nearly five decades of leadershipas seen Baylor track and field reach monumental heights while earning a world-wide reputation as "Quarter-Miler U." His pupils have won an Olympic gold medal in six straightlympics (1996-2012) and at least two gold medals in five consecutive Olympic Games (2000-2012). In just the men's 400-meter event, Jeremy Wariner (2004) and Michael

ohnson (1996, 2000) captured Olympic gold in three straight Games. All-told, Hart has coached nine Olympians who have won a total of 13 Olympic gold medals, one silver andhree bronze with Johnson claiming five gold medals, Wariner and Sanya Richards-Ross three, and Darold Williamson and Reggie Witherspoon one each. From the time he tookver the program from his mentor, Jack Patterson, in 1963, through the 2013 season, Hart has coached 34 national champions (14 individual and 20 relay) and 545 All-Americaerformances -- 419 men's All-America honorees (131 individual and 288 relay) and 126 women's All-Americans (45 individual and 81 relay). His men's 4x400-meter relayams have earned outdoor All-America status in 24 of the last 25 years and captured 20 NCAA titles combined in indoors and outdoors. His 2004 4x400-meter relay team set a

hen-NCAA indoor record with a 3:03.96 clocking and his 1997 unit set a then-World record at the Big 12 Outdoor Championships. All-told, Hart's teams have turned in 10World-record performances (nine individual and one relay) and nine NCAA record efforts. In his final season as head coach at Baylor, he guided Williamson to his first-everndividual national title in the final 400-meter race of his career at the NCAA Outdoor Championships. Williamson also captured an unprecedented fourth straight Big 12 400-

meter title, anchored the Bears' to their eighth straight Big 12 4x400-meter relay crown both indoors and outdoors and anchored the squad to All-America performances at theCAA Indoor and Outdoor Championships. The 2004 campaign was a career year, even by the legendary coach's standards. Wariner, then a sophomore, captured the gold medal

n the 400 meters, leading the United States to a 1-2-3 sweep at the Olympic Games in Athens. Wariner became the first quarter-miler in history to sweep the four major titles inhe event, including the U.S. Championship and the NCAA Indoor and Outdoor crowns. Later, Wariner would hand the baton to junior teammate Williamson as the Baylor duod the U.S. 4x400-meter relay to nearly a five-second victory for the gold medal. Wariner ran third and Williamson anchored all year as the duo led the Bears to the NCAA

ndoor title with a collegiate record time of 3:03.96 and completed an undefeated season in the relay with the NCAA Outdoor championship. The 4x400-meter relay has a 20-yearreak of All-America finishes and has produced 15 national titles (one women's) under Hart's leadership since 1985. Hart was named the 2004 Nike Coach of the Year and was

nducted to the Baylor Wall of Honor, the highest award bestowed upon Baylor letterwinners. Former pupil Michael Johnson was inducted into the United States Track & Fieldall of Fame and his 200-meter performance at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta was deemed the greatest track and field moment in the last 25 years by USATF. Wariner wasonored as the Mondo National and Regional Outdoor Track Athlete of the Year, while Williamson was named Big 12 Outdoor Track Athlete of the Year. Thoseccomplishments are just a few in a long list by Hart, a coach widely regarded as one of the best in the country. Selected as USA Track & Field's 2004 and 2006 Nike Coach ofhe Year, Hart is a member of the Baylor Wall of Honor, the Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame, the USA Track & Field Coaches Association Hall of Fame, the Texas Sports Hall ofame and the Baylor Athletic Hall of Fame. He served as an assistant coach on the United States' 2000 Olympic team and was named the U.S. Olympic Committee's National

rack & Field Coach of the Year in 1996, 2004 and 2006.

arius Cooper, Arkansas State University, Asst. Coacharius Cooper begins his third year as an assistant coach in the 2014-15 season with the Arkansas State University track and field program. Cooper, who began his current dutiesn September 2012, is responsible for coaching the A-State sprints, hurdles, and relays along with serving as the Red Wolves' recruiting coordinator. "I'm very passionate aboutoaching the sprints and hurdles events," said Cooper. "I just want to continue being a student of the sport and learn as much as possible." In 2014, Cooper worked with seniorustin Whitfield, who set an A-State school record in the men's 60-meter indoors with a time of 6.77. Whitfield, along with senior Raymond Jackson both ran all-time personalests in the 100 meters with times of 10.20 and 10.38, respectively. Cooper was also instrumental in the development of senior hurdler Sharika Nelvis, who achieved two U.S.rack & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) First-Team All-America honors by winning national titles in both the 2014 NCAA Division I indoor 60-

meter hurdles (7.93) and the outdoor 100-meter hurdles (12.52w) events. On track to capturing her national titles, Nelvis won seven individual SBC Championships. Nelvisched her name in the A-State and SBC record books along with becoming the Sun Belt Conference Female Athlete of the Year, Honda Sport Award winner in track, and aSTFCCCA The Bowerman Trophy finalist. In the 2012-13 season, Cooper coached three Red Wolves to conference individual champion titles. During the indoor campaign, he

oached two Sun Belt Conference Champions - Justin Whitfield in the 55-meter dash and Sharika Nelvis in the 55-meter dash, 55-meter hurdles, and 200-meter dash. In theutdoor season, Cooper helped Solomon Williams become conference champion in the 110-meter hurdles while Nelvis continued to dominate the sprints by winning the 100-

meters, 100-meter hurdles, and 200-meters. Williams would go on to earn All-America Second-Team honors by sprinting 13.80 in the 110-meter hurdles preliminaries at theCAA Division I Championships while Nelvis posted a career-best 12.84 time in the prelims to receive All-America First-Team laurels before taking sixth place in the national

nals. Prior to A-State, Cooper spent 2011-12 as an assistant coach at his prep alma mater Flagler Palm Coast High School in Palm Coast, Fla. His coaching areas ofesponsibility for the program included sprints, hurdles, and relays. Cooper coached several of the school's athletes to the Florida High School Athletic Association (FHSAA) 4Atate Meet such as Kadeem Williams in the 300-intermediate hurdles and the girl's 4x400-meter relay team. A four-year track letterwinner (2007-11) at the University of Florida,ooper earned Southeastern Conference (SEC) All-Academic Team honors in each of his four seasons (2007-11). He placed fourth for the Gators in the 110-meter hurdles at the010 SEC Outdoor Championships and then followed with a third-place showing in the 60-meter hurdles at the 2011 SEC Indoor Championships. Cooper graduated from theniversity of Florida in 2011 with a bachelor's degree in criminology. A 2007 graduate of Flagler Palm Coast High School, Cooper attained 2007 FHSAA 4A State Championurels in the 110-meter high hurdles (13.97 time) and was a member of the 2007 FHSAA 4A Boys Team champions. The four-year letterwinner (2007-11) capped his 2007

enior year by not only earning all-state plaudits, but garnering distinction as the state's top-ranked 110-meter hurdler and also clocked an event time which placed him amongsthe nation's top-25 performers. In 2007, Cooper claimed All-America prep accolades in the sprint medley and gained All-America status in the outdoor 110-meter highurdles. A three-year (2005-07) team captain, Cooper graduated from FPCHS as the record holder in the 110-meter hurdles (13.85) and 300-meter hurdles (38.34). Cooperompleted his masters in sport administration from Arkansas State in 2014. He is an United States Track and Field (USATF) Level 1 certified instructor.

Andy Vince, Throws Coach Florida (Former British Director of Throws/Scottish National Coach/Murray State Coach)ndy Vince owner and coach of www.throwscoachfloridacoach.com and serves as private coach was employed until recently as the Track and Field Coordinator at the Nationalraining Center in Clermont Florida. Previous to that, I was employed for 25 years delivering and supporting throws and jumps coaching, track facility management and track andeld (British Athletics/Scottish Athletics) and governing body administration. This is a brief summary of his involvement in Track and Field athletics: Former British Director ohrows, Great Britain Under 23 National Team Head Coach, Scottish Team National Coach, Manager of the Scottish National Track & Field Academy, British Junior Record

older in the Shot Put - 2 times, Junior British National Champion, Former Junior Decathlete, Senior United Kingdom Shot Put Champion, Record Holder, Indoor Shotut/Outdoor Shot and Discus throw at Murray State University USA. Throws and Jumps Coach – Murray State University & Southern Illinois University. The above has taken

me to Commonwealth/European/World Championships and Olympic Games as an athlete , a coach, or enthusiastic supporter of track and field, but more importantly has givenme the opportunity to work with national and international standard throwers and their coaches, this is the experience I will bring to coaching athletes in Florida, and makinghrowscoachflorida.com a medium that is dedicated to the art, science and passion of throwing.

Desmond Dunham, Woodrow Wilson HS (Virginia) — Head Coachesmond Dunham is currently the Head Coach Track and Cross Country Coach at Woodrow Wilson High School in Virginia. He was named this past summer as one of the

op — 25, 2014 — BROOKS — Most Inspiring Coach — Finalists. Desmond brought tremendous success and national recognition to the nearby Eleanor Roosevelt High School tracknd field program and also coached for four years with the University of Maryland Terps and will seek to blend the momentum from an outstanding performance last year by theistance crew with one of the top recruiting classes in recent memory. During his time with Maryland, Dunham made a significant impact. During his first year, as a volunteer in008-2009, he coached Kiani Profit, who was on her way to All-America status as a multi-event s tar. Dunham coached cross country standout Alex Lundy to the 2009 NCAAross Country National Championships, as Lundy made his second straight trip to the nationals as an individual. His additional coaching highlights during the 2009-2010

easons include the men's cross country team earning the President's Cup as the team with the highest collective GPA at Maryland. Distance squads set four school records inack and field a year ago - outdoor: men's 4xMile relay, women's distance medley relay, 4x1500m relay, and indoor - men's distance medley relay). The Terrapin women's team

on the team title at the 2009 Great American Invitational, and Dunham coached Greg Kelsey to one of the top times in the nation in the 3,000 steeplechase during the 2010 track

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eason. "Desmond is one of the top up-and-coming college coaches in track and field and cross country," said head coach Andrew Valmon. "He showed t remendous success at theigh-school level and is ready to transform this into the collegiate setting," said Valmon. "He is knowledgeable in multiple disciplines of the sport and has a strong understandingf distance athletes." Dunham is most noted for making American high school history at the Penn Relays in 2007 and 2008, snagging three relay titles (4x800, 4x400 in 2007 andx400 in 2008) and upsetting the highly favored Jamaican teams . He was named the Coach of the Decade by The Gazette (2000-2010), and his history-making 4x800 squad8:43.1 national record) was named the ESPN/Dyestat Relay of the Decade. Dunham, who has 13 years of coaching experience, was on the staff at Eleanor Roosevelt HS inreenbelt from 2003 to 2008. While the head coach there, his teams won the Maryland Class 4A state indoor and outdoor girls championships in 2007 and 2008, and won threeirls state c ross country titles (2004-05-06). His boys teams won state titles indoors in 2007 and outdoors in 2008. Many of Roosevelt's relay teams earned national recognitionnd U.S. national prep records, along with Nike Outdoor Championships and Penn Relays titles. Dunham is a three-time honoree as the Washington Post All-Met Coach of theear and was awarded All-Gazette Coach of the Year honors eight times. His club experience includes work from 1998 to 2003 as head coach of the D.C. Redwings program,here he coached more than 50 All-Americans and individuals to Junior Olympics national competitions in track and cross country. An experienced sports massage therapist,

unham holds a bachelor's degree in physical education from Howard University, where he was captain of the track and cross country teams as a senior. He also has a master'segree in secondary science education from Trinity University. Dunham resides in Washington, D.C., with his wife Jami, who is a middle school principal, and their two childreniles and Nia.

Mark Strawderman, M-F AthleticMARK W. STRAWDERMAN is currently the GM for M-F Athletic and Perform Better Companies. He is the lead instructor for all Bill Falk Pole Vault Camps for Coaches and

thletes. These camps focus on all phases of the pole vault are covered in detail. They teach the "continuous chain" method for starting and improving pole vaulters. Everymportant fundamental and safety precaution is taught in learn-by-doing, classroom, video review and on-field sessions. The NPVCA curriculum is covered in detail and tested.

Mark Strawderman has conducted classroom, video review and practical learn-by-doing sessions. It's a complete Pole Vault education for coaches covering every phase of thevent.was a three-time All-America pole vaulter at University of Rhode Island. His achievements include: second in the nation as a senior; four-time ECAC champion in bothndoor and outdoor competition; five-time New England titlist; two-time winner of the Penn Relays and record holder in the event; two-time qualifier for the U.S. Olympic Trials;l-time Eastern vault record holder until 1993; and 1982 recipient of the Albert LeBoeuf Award as the most outstanding senior male athlete a t URI.

Ken Taylor, Pole Vault Central/Athletic Scholarship Central/Former —

UNF Asst.oach Taylor has over 40 years of pole vault experience both as an athlete and a coach. He has worked with over 500 vaulters in his career as a high school, collegiate andSATF coach. He is still an active vaulter with two national masters titles and a 7th place world ranking. He frequently speaks at pole vault clinics across the nation and currently

the assistant coach at the University of North Florida . Ken Taylor attended the University of Richmond on a football scholarship and also was a sprinter on the track team. Heegan his coaching career at Orange Park High School where he produced two regional championships, four district championships and seven high school All-American's in tracknd field. For eight consecutive years his vaulters placed in the top four in the state of Florida with two state champions and three high school All-Americans in the pole vault asell as the state of Florida's first 16 foot vaulter. In his five years at UNF he has produced 9 Atlantic Sun Conference Championships in men's and women's pole vault, 18 Allonference performers in the pole vault, the Atlantic Sun Indoor and Outdoor Conference record in the women's pole vault and the Atlantic Sun Conference record holder in the

Men's outdoor pole vault. He has also had 3 NCAA Division I Regional qualifiers in the pole vault. Taylor has served as an assistant t rack coach at Nease High School for fourears and head men ’ s and women ’ s track coach with over 150 athletes competing in the program. During his tenure, 14 of the Nease track and field school records were broken.oach Taylor is an active participant in Master's Track and Field and has won two national titles, one runner up and in 2011 was seventh in the world in his age group at the 2011

World Master's Championship. He is a regular speaker at high school clinics.

Ken Brauman, Sanford-Seminole HS/2012 — Men ’ s Olympic Team Manager/2011 & 2013 — World Championships Team Managerrauman is currently serving as the manager of the National Training Center (NTC) in Clermont. He has served as the head track coach at Seminole High School in Sanford, Fla.,nce 1983. He was named Florida Track Coach of the Year 10 times, has coached 57 High School All-Americans and was named the 1997 National High School Track and Field

oach of the Year. A member of the Florida Track and Field Hall of Fame, he is an inductee of the Florida Athletic Coaches Association Hall of Fame. A USA Track & Fieldertified Level 1 Coaching Instructor, Brauman has served as the head manager on two U.S. World Junior Championship team staffs and has been an assistant coach on six U.S.nternational team sta ffs, including the 1997 World Indoor Championships in Paris, France, and the 2001 World Outdoor Championships in Edmonton, Canada. He recentlyerved as the men's head manager at the 2009,2011, and 2013 World Outdoor Championships in Berlin, Daegu, and Moscow.

Charlie Harris, Embry — Riddle Aeronautical University, Asst. Coach (Former Lake Brantley, Head Coach)harlie was the 1 st coach in Lake Brantley history and went onto a long-time successful career for over 32+ years as both the cross country and track & field coach. He won theirls 1998-Cross Country State Championship as well numerous state qualifiers. Coach Harris coached hundreds of All-State performers as well numerous ones that went onto

ompete as collegiate track & field athletes. Coach Harris is currently in his 2 nd year as an Asst. Coach at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in charge of the throws, poleault and high jump. Coach Harris is 1974 graduate of the Florida State University where he was a long and triple jumper.

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